Etymology
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creative + -ity.
Pronunciation
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creativity (countable and uncountable, plural creativities)
- The ability to use imagination to produce a novel idea or product.
His creativity is unsurpassed by his fellow students in the art class.
2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0 – 1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport[1], archived from the original on 4 November 2016:Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.
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Translations
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quality or ability to create or invent something
- Afrikaans: kreatiwiteit
- Arabic: إِبْدَاع (ar) m (ʔibdāʕ)
- Catalan: creativitat (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 創造力/创造力 (zh) (chuàngzàolì), 創造性/创造性 (zh) (chuàngzàoxìng)
- Czech: tvořivost (cs) f
- Danish: kreativitet c, skaberevne c
- Dutch: creativiteit (nl)
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: loovus
- Faroese: skapanarevni n
- Finnish: luovuus (fi)
- French: créativité (fr) f
- Galician: creatividade (gl) f
- Georgian: კრეატიულობა (ḳreaṭiuloba), შემოქმედებითობა (šemokmedebitoba), შემოქმედობითობა (šemokmedobitoba)
- German: Kreativität (de) f, Schaffenskraft (de) f, Schöpfungskraft f
- Greek: δημιουργικότητα (el) f (dimiourgikótita)
- Hebrew: יצירתיות (he) f (yetziratiut)
- Hindi: रचनात्मकता (hi) f (racnātmaktā)
- Hungarian: kreativitás (hu)
- Icelandic: sköpunargáfa f
- Ido: kreiveso (io)
- Indonesian: kreativitas (id)
- Japanese: 創造性 (sōzōsei), 創造力 (sōzōryoku)
- Kazakh: шығармашылық (şyğarmaşylyq)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 창의력(創意力) (ko) (chang'uiryeok) (coming up with new ideas), 창조력(創造力) (changjoryeok) (more physical force of creation)
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: auahatanga
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kreativitet m
- Nynorsk: kreativitet
- Old English: orþanc m
- Persian: خلاقیت (fa) (xallâqiyat)
- Polish: kreatywność (pl) f, twórczość (pl) f
- Portuguese: criatividade (pt) f
- Romanian: creativitate (ro) f
- Russian: креати́вность (ru) f (kreatívnostʹ), тво́рческие спосо́бности f pl (tvórčeskije sposóbnosti)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: стваралаштво n, креативност f
- Roman: stvaralaštvo (sh) n, kreativnost (sh) f
- Spanish: creatividad (es) f
- Swedish: kreativitet (sv) c, skaparförmåga c
- Tagalog: pagkamapanlikha
- Thai: ความคิดสร้างสรรค์ (kwaam-kít-sâang-sǎn)
- Turkish: yaratıcılık (tr)
- Urdu: تخلیقی صلاحیت f (taxlīqī salāhiyyat)
- Vietnamese: óc sáng tạo, tính sáng tạo
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See also
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- genius, often associated with creativity.
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